The Coast Province ( Swahili : Mkoa wa Pwani ) was one of Kenya 's eight provinces . It covered the entire country's coastline on the Indian Ocean . Its capital city was Mombasa . It was inhabited by the Mijikenda and Swahili peoples, among others. The province covered an area of 79,686.1 km .
4-683: The Tsavo River is located in the Coast Province in Kenya . It runs east from the western end of the Tsavo West National Park of Kenya , near the border of Tanzania , until it joins with the Athi River , forming the Galana River near the center of the park. This river is the main contributor to the watershed of the lower portion of the park region, and is home to abundant fish. The Tsavo River
8-477: Is the site of the 1898 Tsavo Maneaters incident. 2°58′39″S 38°31′14″E / 2.97750°S 38.52056°E / -2.97750; 38.52056 This article related to a river in Kenya is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Coast Province Some of the province's important towns included Kilifi , Malindi , Watamu and Lamu in the north, and Mwandimu and Magunda in
12-696: The Chinese during the era of the Yongle Emperor and the expeditions of Zheng He . Watamu is a small fishing community and contains East Africa's first marine national park, the Watamu Marine National Park . The Coast Provinces had a population of 3,325,307 in 2009. The climate is designated as Aw in the Köppen climate classification system. In 1999, the Mombasa Republican Council
16-399: The south. Some of the coastal population was located in resort and beach settlements such as Kiongwe and Kipini . Diani Beach was one of the province's major tourist centres, with palm trees and white sandy beaches like Mombasa. Malindi is where Vasco da Gama picked up his pilot to navigate with the monsoon winds to India; Mambrui appears to be the site where contact occurred with
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